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So the two weeks of actual summer weather is over. It was good while it lasted! In spite of that summer '07 seems to have stretched on and on. Probably because it's been packed full of a variety of stuff - yay Stuff! Films, gigs, books, a BBC prom, an impromptu visit to Spain, a wedding, a V&A Fete, Brighton Pride, Ben & Jerry's "Sundae", a club night on a boat (all for "charidy" baby!), and a few random places I forget the names of. Oh, and Glasto. That was amazing in itself. There's also been the promotion at work, a spanky new computer, trips down memory lane as I format & categorise loads of old posts, and of course the crazy crazy weather. Eventful is one word for it.

Anyway, as I was saying, the weather's gone rubbish again with mugginess and drizzle being the order of the day, so I'm buggering off to the south of France. Bordeaux for a few and then something called a "Gite" in the French countryside; somewhere between "Condom" and "Ouch". Though I may have the spellings wrong… Bai!

Jeff Jarvis gives a breakdown of a statistical study of political/media tribalism in the US. Covers the decline of traditional media as well as what the tribes think of each other.

Finally, a CSS Framework, hurrah! I'll never have to dirty my hands with CSS ever again! Heh, well clearly not; I loves me my CSS! In any case it's really interesting, both as a promising framework and just as a library, drawing together many best practices including such joys as vertical grids, horizontal rhythms and Eric Meyer's recent reset. I've already learnt quite a bit about web typography-in-action, and I've only been messing with it for a bit.

With my latest blog design I've been trying to make it as CSSy as possible, and having such a clear-cut design-based css resource is great. It's not done yet, but it's already looking very sweet. And people in the know are loving it, so it's got momentum from the get-go.

Collating as much as possible of my past 'blogs in one place is proving to be incredibly time consuming. Particularly because they're in different formats in different versions. ? 2002 - June 2003: Guest on Wabson - Only 5 pages worth of posts, but the only ones I can get my hands on are the those on the last page, from the Wayback Machine March 2003 - Nov 2003: Mynciboi 1.0 - My first proper blog, hosted on the frequently-down Uni webspace. It used Blogger for the back-end, and was properly exported too! Hurrah! So almost easy to implement, except that the posts have no titles, and it didn't take any of the comments with it as they were being run by a plug-in. Bah. Nov 2003 - June 2004: Mynciboi 2.0 - Second effort, hosted on Laurie's webspace, using Movable Type for the back-end. With integrated comments! Hurrah! The database died long before the web-pages so these blogs exist as HTML, 1-page-per-post, 400ish of them. June 2004 - Dec 2005: Mynciboi 3.0 - Still hosted by Laurie, this was more a redesign than anything else, though I also reorganised the archives somewhat. The upshot is that these pages as HTML too, but this time 1-page-per-month, and the comments for these died along with the database. Thankfully at least some are in the Wayback Machine. Dec 2005 - Now: Mochaholic 1.0 - You're reading it now! Or to be more accurate I'm writing on it now. Either way this bit is easy-peasy!! Once I've brought it all together, whether by prodigious use of Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V or sudden insight in the the realm of parsing, then I need to go through and categorise/tag everything. Perhaps culling some of the rubbish on the way. This isn't going to be done any time soon.